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<p>Alter: isbn. Upgrade ISBN10 to ISBN13. | <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:UCB" class="extiw" title="wp:UCB">Use this bot</a>. <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:DBUG" class="extiw" title="wp:DBUG">Report bugs</a>. | Suggested by Abductive | <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:1903_deaths&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:1903 deaths (page does not exist)">Category:1903 deaths</a> | via #UCB_Category 780/1866</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:Henry Rinaldo Porter.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Henry Rinaldo Porter studio portrait.]]<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Henry Rinaldo Porter&#039;&#039;&#039; (February 13, 1848 – March 3, 1903) was a Surgeon in the [[7th U.S. Cavalry]] at the [[Battle of the Little Big Horn]].&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|title=Dr. Henry R. Porter: The Surgeon Who Survived Little Bighorn|first=L.G. |last=Walker|publisher= McFarland|year= 2007|isbn=978-0-7864-3171-7}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Early life==<br /> Porter was born in [[Lee, New York|Lee Center, New York]]. He graduated [[Georgetown University]] School of Medicine in 1872 and interned for three months at [[Columbia Hospital for Women]], [[Washington, DC]].<br /> <br /> ==Military career==<br /> He signed on in 1872 as an army contract surgeon for duty in the [[Arizona Territory]] under [[General]] [[George Crook]] where he was cited for bravery. In 1873, he was assigned as a contract Surgeon with the army at [[Camp Hancock State Historic Site|Camp Hancock]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|Bismarck]], [[Dakota Territory]]. In 1876 he joined [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[George Armstrong Custer]] who assigned Dr. Porter to [[Frederick Benteen]]&#039;s battalion during the march to the [[Little Bighorn River]] from May to June 1876 and to Major Reno&#039;s at the [[Battle of Little Bighorn]]. Porter was the only one of the [[7th Cavalry Regiment|7th Cavalry]]&#039;s three surgeons available to the survivors on [[Battle of the Little Bighorn#Reno and Benteen on Reno Hill|Reno Hill]] for the two days they were besieged. (Dr. [[George Edwin Lord]] had been killed with Custer&#039;s Battalion (Yates&#039; Troops E and F) and Dr. [[James Madison DeWolf]] was killed during the climb up Reno Hill.) Porter attended the wounded on the deck of the [[Far West (steamship)|&#039;&#039;Far West&#039;&#039;]], which brought them back to [[Fort Abraham Lincoln]] after the battle.<br /> <br /> Dr. Porter left his contract service in December 1876. He testified at the Reno Court of Inquiry in 1879.<br /> <br /> ==Death==<br /> Porter died in 1903 in [[Agra, India]], where he had gone on a trip around the world. His wife, Charlotte Viets of [[Oberlin, Ohio]], died August 6, 1888, and is buried in Oberlin. A memorial for Porter is located next to Viets grave, but Porter is buried at the Cantonment Cemetery in [[Agra, India]]. There is currently a street in [[New York Mills, NY]], where he lived as a youth, named in his honor and a street in [[Bismarck, North Dakota]], also named for him.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Porter, Henry Rinaldo}}<br /> [[Category:1848 births]]<br /> [[Category:1903 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Georgetown University School of Medicine alumni]]<br /> [[Category:People from Agra]]<br /> [[Category:People of the Great Sioux War of 1876]]<br /> [[Category:Battle of the Little Bighorn]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{US-mil-bio-stub}}</div>

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